IUCRC Phase II: Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnology (BRAIN)

IUCCRC 第二阶段：在神经技术 (BRAIN) 领域建立可靠的进步和创新

• 批准号: 2137255
• 负责人: Jose Contreras-Vidal
• 金额: $ 75.83万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2137255&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Phase; II; Building; Reliable

Disability is becoming a leading cause of healthcare concern because of the increase in survivable trauma and an aging population. Millions of adults live with neurological disorders, brain injury, mental illness, limb loss or paralysis. There is a need for accessible technologies that can more effectively address the care and rehabilitation needs of these patients. However, innovation in neurotechnology faces several challenges: The pace of innovation exceeds the rate of evaluation for acceptable performance; standards for the validation of safety, efficacy, and reliability of neurotechnology are lagging; current technologies are costly, limiting their deployment for treatment of disabilities; and the need to train new generations of physicians and engineers in emerging technologies steadily increases.The Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnology (IUCRC BRAIN) will address the above challenges. The Center’s vision is built on a convergent research approach to the design and validation of reliable, ethical, patient-centered neurotechnologies and their use in understanding neural systems. BRAIN leverages wide-ranging expertise from neural, cognitive and rehabilitation engineering to neurorobotics, neuromodulation, and ethical artificial intelligence to enhance the rate of development and empirical validation of new neurotechnologies through partnerships with industry and other strategic partners while developing a highly skilled workforce; evaluating the impact of these technologies on quality of life; and integrating knowledge across disciplines —such as the humanities with neurotechnologies — to understand collective intelligence, and augment physical and cognitive capabilities.The Center’s mission is multifold: to accelerate the progress of science and advance the national health by transferring neurotechnology to end users and to promote access for underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and math by broadening new participation and retaining current participants. BRAIN will address problems in the neurological space that disproportionately affect underrepresented groups. BRAIN will become a neurotechnology hub by creating a pipeline from discoveries to solutions, while helping students, scientists, and engineers solve one of the greatest unmet medical and health care needs of our time.The University of Houston Site – a Hispanic-Serving Institution and the Lead Site for the Center – will focus on multi-scale, multi-modal, and trans-disciplinary approaches to advance our understanding of neural function and translate discoveries to create neurotechnology for diagnostics, neurorehabilitation, and improving the human condition. The Center will maintain a project repository (https://nsfbrain.org/) comprised of products and services for 10 years after the completion of this project.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

由于可生存的创伤和人口老龄化，残疾正在成为医疗保健关注的主要原因。数以百万计的成年人患有神经系统疾病，脑损伤，精神疾病，肢体丧失或瘫痪。需要更有效地满足这些患者的护理和康复需求的无障碍技术。但是，神经技术的创新面临着几个挑战：创新的步伐超过了可接受性能的评估率；验证神经技术的安全性，效率和可靠性的标准滞后；当前的技术是昂贵的，限制了他们的部署用于治疗疾病；并且需要培训新一代的医师和工程师的新兴技术。该中心的愿景建立在可靠，道德，以患者为中心的神经技术的设计和验证的收敛研究方法上，及其在理解神经系统中的使用。大脑从神经，认知和康复工程到神经机构，神经调节和道德人工智能的广泛专业知识，以通过与工业和其他战略伙伴的合作伙伴关系来增强对新神经技术的发展速度和经验验证；评估这些技术对生活质量的影响；并整合跨学科的知识（例如人文科学与神经技术），以了解集体智慧，并增强身体和认知能力。该中心的使命是多重的：加速科学的进步并通过转移神经技术的发展来推动神经技术的发展，以最终的用户访问不足的少数群体，从而在科学，技术，技术，工程学，数学和数学方面的参与和数学范围内促进访问。大脑将解决神经系统空间中影响不足的群体不成比例的问题。大脑将通过创建从发现到解决方案的管道来成为神经技术中心，同时帮助学生，科学家和工程师解决了我们这个时代最大的未满足的医疗和医疗保健需求之一。休斯顿大学（University of Houston）网站 - 西班牙裔服务机构以及该中心的领先地点，将重点介绍多个阶级，多型模态和跨性别的方法，以促进多种模式和跨性别的方法，以实现培训，以推进多种模态和跨性别的方法。用于诊断，神经居住和改善人类状况的神经技术。该中心将维护一个项目存储库（https://nsfbrain.org/），该项目由产品和服务组成，该项目结束后10年，该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来获得的支持。

项目成果

Brain-eNet: Towards an Enabling Technology for BCI-IoT Systems

• DOI: 10.1109/smc53992.2023.10394117
• 发表时间: 2023-10
• 期刊: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)
• 作者: Juan José González-España;Lianne Sánchez Rodríguez;Alexander Craik;Sarah Wong;Jeff Feng;J. Contreras-Vidal

Optimization of Electrode Configuration for the Removal of Eye Artifacts with Adaptive Noise Cancellation

通过自适应噪声消除消除眼部伪影的电极配置优化

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: and Cybernetics (SMC
• 作者: Gonzalez-Espana, Jose J.;Craik, Alexander;Ramirez, Carolina;Alamir, Ayman;and Contreras-Vidal, Jose
• 通讯作者: and Contreras-Vidal, Jose